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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Not intended for use in medical devices
Date: 1997/05/08
Date: 1997-05-08T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mheaney-ya023680000805970900450001@news.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.863006367@merv


In article <dewar.863006367@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:


>As for (2), I don't see that. Indeed memory mapped I/O devices are tricky.
>Ada programmers in particular are tempted to speak to memory mapped I/O
>devices by using address clauses, and this almost always results in subtly
>non-portable code that is making unjustified assumptions.

Is there some _other_ way of doing memory I/O - without using address
clauses?  Isn't memory-mapped I/O in fact the _reason_ for address clauses
in the language?

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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-04  0:00 Not intended for use in medical devices Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1997-05-05  0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-06  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-06  0:00     ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-12  0:00     ` Ken Garlington
1997-05-06  0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-05-06  0:00   ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-07  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-08  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1997-05-10  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-14  0:00         ` Richard Kenner
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1997-05-03  0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1997-05-03  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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